This book is a product of collection of research papers written by academics from Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Bangladesh. The editors of this book felt that there is a great need to address various issues related to regional development, particularly in the developing country context from different perspectives through academics who have been involved in action-oriented research related to various regional development themes. Therefore, this book attempts to address some key issues which are recognized as crucial for sustainable regional development in developing countries. The book covers five themes: disaster, gender, participatory rural development and governance, environment and migration and includes thirteen chapters that discuss various areas of regional development. The book has been developed for use as a text book at undergraduate and post-graduate level.....